https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/01/13/nsa-phone-record-collection-had-no-discernible-impact-on-counterterrorism/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 11:52:28 -0400<![CDATA[Consider this confirmation of an earlier analysis reported by the Washington Post and NBC in the pre-Christmas doldrums. Despite repeated claims by the White House that the NSA&#8217;s phone collection program may have prevented as many as 50 terrorist attacks against the US, another independent study found that the surveillance &#8220;has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism&#8221; (via the Daily Beast):]]>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:41:00 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/01/13/nsa-phone-record-collection-had-no-discernible-impact-on-counterterrorism-n186906